<\/td><\/tr><\/table>But screw those guys. This was fun. The only not-fun was in whittling down the list, because choosing some means not<\/em> choosing all the others. Taking comments into account along with my own preferences and some input from friends, I was able to pick a final eight. But I don’t have the heart to make the final cut myself, so we’ll have to settle this with an internet poll. Oh goody. Those are always a good barometer of the worthiness of art. <\/p>\nSo, let’s get this over with. Just remember that everyone you don’t vote for worked very hard on their entry and will probably feel the sting of rejection when you scorn their efforts. So, thanks for voting, you cold hearted dream-killer. <\/p>\n
The nominees, in the order they were posted:<\/p>\n
Entry #1:<\/strong><\/p>\n 89yr old WWII Veteran Jerry Attrick was resigned to living out the rest of his life bored and lonely in the The Shady Pines Nursing home, but after he started a new vitamin regiment the latent “failed” super soldier serum he was administered 65 years earlier kicked in. He he was faster and stronger than he had ever been in his life. Tired of the crime and societal decay around him, he took up crime fighting while maintaining his secret identity as a doddering old man in a nursing home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Entry #2:<\/strong><\/p>\n Sam Morris is a big gam hunter from the future. Seeking a real challange, Sam travels back in time to hunt Dinosaurs. Unfortunately, Sam cuts his last trip too close to their armageddon, and the meteor enters Earth's atmosphere as he is returning to his own time. Not only he he thrown from his own timeline, his genes get contanimated with Dinosaur DNA, leaving him with thick skin and sharp spikes. Now known as StegaSam, he looks for a way home, trying to help a few people along the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Entry #3:<\/strong><\/p>\n He always wanted to ba an hero, but he was born in wrong family\/planet\/dimension. So he started hanging around chemical and nuclear plants, but he managed only to catch a bad cough and a record at homeland security. He tried calling on assorted supernatural entities, but he only got voiceboxes. He tried a spider bite, but only got a nasty swelling. He decided to build a power armor, but only managed to be elettrocuted. But that at last did it! Now he fight the crime with lightning as Voltampere!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Entry #4:<\/strong><\/p>\n So let's say, hypothetically, you're a lab tech working on a dimensional energy experiment, and a containment breach turns you into the earthly vessel of Nilb'Akh'Tnadres, the Thousand Arms From Beyond Void. What do you do? Go mad from the experience, maybe toss a couple cars around? Sure, maybe. Except it turns out Nilb is pretty cool, he just wants to hang out. (His home dimension is kind of a dump after all.) So what do you do with your eldritch powers? Fight crime of course. Duh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Entry #5:<\/strong> <\/p>\n 17 yr old Jack Silver hld the Record as the fstst txtr 102 wrds pr min he culd txt fstr thn mst culd typ Bt whl on a skool tour of M Ctys Nclear PWR Fclty th rdtn frm a cntainmnt leak cmbnd wth th rf nrgy frm th 2 cll phns in hs hnds and wrlss hedset causng a mttn Nw Jck culd mv as fst as he culd txt Th only prblm is he is nw only abl 2 thnk r cmmnct in TXT-SPK at spr spd Ttlly Incmprhnsbl whn syng EL OH EL out loud he strggls 2 fnd hs wy thru ths spr-pwrd wrld wth almst no ptienc fr othr ppl<\/p><\/blockquote>\n